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You're not going to believe this footage from Aldo Buttazzoni."Last night, I attended 'pride night' at the LA Zoo, which included an all ages drag show. This event sold tickets not only to children, but to infants, under the age of two years old, and featured performers who show themselves online in bondage, stripping, and kink, smoking drugs, and holding bloody, decapitated heads. This is who the LA Zoo was inviting children and infants to see."

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After a yearlong effort to banish Ruby -- the meek elephant who's become quarrelsome -- to the American hinterland, Mayor James Hahn did an about-face Monday and ordered the city's 9,000-pound pachyderm returned to Los Angeles. Under pressure from animal activists and a lawsuit that warned that her health was in jeopardy -- Hahn directed that the 42-year-old African elephant be returned after 14 months at the Knoxville Zoo in Tennessee, where she had become something of an outcast. "Though the move of Ruby to the Knoxville Zoo was well-intentioned," Hahn said in a statement, "it is clear that she...